tr

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Translate characters: run replacements based on single characters and character sets.

Options (3)

-d, --deleteboolean

Delete all occurrences of the specified set of characters from the input

Example: tr < {{path/to/file}} {{[-d|--delete]}} '{{input_characters}}'

-s, --squeeze-repeatsboolean

Compress a series of identical characters to a single character

Example: tr < {{path/to/file}} {{[-s|--squeeze-repeats]}} '{{input_characters}}'

boolean

Strip out non-printable characters from a file

Example: tr < {{path/to/file}} {{[-cd|--complement --delete]}} "[:print:]"

Replace all occurrences of a character in a file, and print the result

tr < path/to/file find_character replace_character

Replace all occurrences of a character from another command's output

echo text | tr find_character replace_character

Map each character of the first set to the corresponding character of the second set

tr < path/to/file 'abcd' 'jkmn'

Delete all occurrences of the specified set of characters from the input

tr < path/to/file [-d|--delete] 'input_characters'

Compress a series of identical characters to a single character

tr < path/to/file [-s|--squeeze-repeats] 'input_characters'

Translate the contents of a file to upper-case

tr < path/to/file "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"

Strip out non-printable characters from a file

tr < path/to/file [-cd|--complement --delete] "[:print:]"